Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell (born in New York City) is an American television reporter, commentator and anchor of NBC News based at Washington D.C. Mitchell holds a bachelor's degree in English language and culture from University of Pennsylvania. In the year 1967, Mitchell began her career as a reporter with KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. In 1976, she was a CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). Two years later she became general reporter at NBC News in Washington. In 1981, she began covering for the White House, and in 1988, she was promoted to chief congressional correspondent. In 1992, she was appointed chief White House Correspondent and in 1994 was appointed chief foreign affairs reporter of NBC News. Mitchell appeared as both an anchor and a panelist on the TV news program Meet the Press. She served on an audience for the debates of 1988 between George Bush (then president) and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2005, Mitchell was awarded the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government as well as in 2004 she was awarded the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) presented Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award for her work in the defense of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at in the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988, during Ronald Reagan's two terms as president. The reporting she did included plenty of important stories like the Iran-Contra controversy, budget and tax reform, as well as the arms control. She traveled extensively together with the president Reagan to meet together with Mikhail Gorbachev.